CROSSWORD
1236: Give me a ring by Doc
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 4 December, with two runners-up prizes of £15 tor, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1236, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Building remains he leaves for us along the Rhine (5) 6 Shabby people court 33's partner (7) 11 Right-angled turn thro' lagoon (10) 13 Dusky individual embraced by German gaoler (9) 15 Enters fells (4) 16 Blinker makes old brood panic (7, hyphened) 17 Only child with cut about most of lip and back of skull (7) 18 South African plot for beheaded slave (3) 19 Shakespearian plague and terrible murder before bad weather (10, hyphened) 21 Crucibles some artisan testily rejected (5) 24 Girl who returns the same ... (4) 27 ... time to be taken out (4) 30 Act before expected — ere Israeli moved (10) 33 Alternately diffuse conditions
35 S(3 alt obtained from the nape (7) 37 Radio comedy some wit made
(4) 38 A capital fellow one returned to love (9)
40 Prophet's half-sneeze by canal (7)
41 Black project (5) DOWN 1 It analyses space ride to Leo (14, two words) 3 Measure of beer but no s-spirits! (6) 4 Humming-bird eats tip of radish and fried meat-ball (9) 6 Although embracing awfully lame cyclist (8) 8 One leaves dirty relative (5) 9 Forget my promises, Noel, anyway (14, three words) 10 Sweet song contains lovely cadenzas, initially (6) 14 A b-brawl! (6) 20 Bold nude disturbed swallows a humbug (9) 22 Speaks freely of present-day MPs (6, hyphened) 23 Speaker in poem left on one's own (8) 26 Plain lover not original (6) 29 Points to gallery and grounds (6) 31 Disloyal French article about Twickenham's first sport (6) 32 Liberal member in the drink (5) 34 Political groups put force on cells (5) 35 Work-table without new illustration (5)
Solution to 1233: Ward off
The lights at 26 3, 6, 8 and 31 were DIVISIONS OF COUNTIES (identified at 31 by omitting the final R); 18, 36 and 39 were the three divisions of 13,
LINCOLNSHIRE.
First prize: Ronald Matthews, London NW10. Runners-up: Mr W. E. Green, Marple, Cheshire; Thomas East, Pinner, Middlesex.
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